Just a couple of violas, one deep blackcurrant, the other a luminous orange. Will still be in flower in three or four months making these diminutive charmers both beautifully and astoundingly good value. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/howtogrow/3346277/Winter-pansies-and-violas-How-to-grow.html
Month: October 2014
Cobaea scandens – the cup and saucer vine with an eye on world domination
Cobaea scandens - the cup and saucer vine - is more commonly found with creamy-green-to-rich purple-fading-to-pale-lavender flowers though also in a ghostly white. Tender here in the UK, it is grown as an annual though these examples, in the Cutting Garden at Petersham Nurseries, survived through the mild and wet winter and continued to grow…
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Autumn Rose Care….
The David Austin rose, Constance Spry, here, winding and spiralling around some birch posts forming a substantial wigwam/obelisk in the Cutting Garden at Petersham Nurseries. Looking forward to my rose-themed workshop tomorrow and hoping that the rain will have rained all it can overnight. A little sunshine would be very welcome!
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Five pictures to brighten a wet Monday… cosmos, sunflowers, violas, zinnias in orbit – and Thug, the Petersham Cat….
The cosmos are still floating around at head height, self-supporting and with ferny-filmy foliage - they have just kept on going and going this season with more to come... Likewise the sunflowers have had a great season, though their flower power is slowing down and much seed is being set. The zinnias, another late season…
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Practical Classes in Rose Pruning
Already halfway through here - I began yesterday afternoon but didn't have my camera with me, so the full extent of the transformation will be a little understated. This rose, which we believe is Olivia Stone, a Harkness rose, was a towering thing, flowering at 8' to 10', more even, and a dense thicket of…
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Magical Mushrooms and other Autumn delights with Claudio Bincoletto
Claudio Bincoletto hosted another Wild Food Forage today at Petersham Nurseries and I peeped at the preparations in the glasshouse before the group returned from their walk this morning. Mushrooms galore - and I'm glad that Claudio knows his stuff as there were some curious looking fungi on display - plus fruits and berries of…
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Wendy’s Wish
Salvia Wendy's Wish Wendy's Wish is a new variety from Austrailia, and is thought to be a cross possibly between buchananii and chiapensis, with large bright purple flowers set in red calyces. Flowering from spring until autumn over a neat and bushy plant. Height 80cm (32"). Spread 60cm (24"). Very easy to grow, drought tolerant and…
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Intimations of Autumn – Witch Hazel and Virginia Creeper
I'm afraid I don't know which cultivar of Hamamelis this is (a sale item, healthy enough but long since separated from any identifying label) but what gorgeous autumn colouring.... I'll have to wait a few months to see the distinctive thread-like and hopefully fragrant flowers, on bare winter branches, to determine who this is. In…
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Memories of the extraordinary Chateau de Villandry
A few years ago, this scene, in front of the extraordinary Château and gardens at Villandry, in the Loire Valley. Where the rest of the photographs are, well I'll have to do some searching as they are not on this computer - was it long ago enough that there were actual negatives and prints? http://www.chateauvillandry.fr http://thegallopinggardener.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/villandry-is-this-worlds-most-perfect.html…
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